Madjmua al-rasail

Abstract

Description

Title supplied by cataloguer.
1v-63r: Tercüme el-Hadis el-erbain-i Birgivi / commentary by el-Seyyid Muhammed el-İspiri el-Hanefi el-Gazali el-Halebi; Title and the name of the commentator from fol. 1v; Colophon on 63r dated 1191 (1777). 64v-94v: Tercüme-i Risale-i vezaif el-deavat ve el-ezkar / by el-Müfti Ebu Said Muhammed b. Şeyh el-Mustafa el-Hadimi; Title from fol.64v; Name of the author from fol.94v; Colophon on 94v dated 1191 (1777). 95v-97v: Tercüme-i Münferice / by İbn el-Nahvi; Title from fol.95v. 98r-99r: Tercüme-i Risale-i Monla Fenari; The first 16 verses of the Qasida burda and Turkish translations of the first 15 verses / by Kab b. Zuhayr; Translator unknown. Title from fol.98r, probably the name of the following treatise of Molla Fenari. 99r-104v: Risale el-ahkam el-mülahhasa fi hükm mai el-himmasa / by Ebu el-İhlas Hasan el-Şurunbulali; Title from fol.99v; The text completed in 1059 (1649), the copy completed in 1060 (1650), during the author's lifetime. 105v-119v: Unidentified treatise on various religious subjects. 120v-137v: Kitabu Menasik el-hac; Tebyin ma lazıme ve ma yundeb fi külli yevmin min el-eyyam el-hamse el-mezbure; Title from fol. 120v, other title from fol. 121r; With marginal notes, containing quotes from Sinan el-Mekki; Risale includes names of Mecca`s gates and names of the halting places from Üsküdar to Mecca. 138v: A symbolic drawing: the ten golden gates of virtue and ten red gates of sin; On fol. 139r an accompanying text with a reference to a risale by Kirmani Efendi. 140v-149r: Manzume-i akaid / by İshak el-Zencani; Title, name of the author and the other title ``Nazm el-leali`` from fol. 140v; It is one of the most important poetic treatises about the Maturidiyah. 149v-158v: Tercüme-i Şurut el-salat / by Şemseddin Mevlana Fenari; Title supplied by cataloguer; Name of the author from fol. 149v; The author by this treatise for his grandson (fol. 150r); Translator unknown. 158v-166v: Esile-i sufi ecvibe-i Sadi / by Sadi; Title supplied by cataloguer; Name of the author from fol.166v; The author states that the treatise written in 994 (1586) for the request of a sufi (158v); Colophon on 166v dated 1 Zilkade-i Şerife 1035 (25 July 1626). 167r-168r: Risale fi beyan-ı ilm el-salat; Title from fol. 167r. 168r-169v: Risale-i fikirname; Title from fol. 168r. 170r-170v: Kaside fi zemm-i tarik el-salat; Title from fol 170r. 170v-180r: Unidentified treatise on the haj; Some folios missing. 180v-188v: Fihris-i şahan-ı Al-i Osman / by Solakzade; Title from fol. 180v; Name of the author supplied by cataloguer.
Marginal notes; 189v: Fevaid: Medical recipe: Tuzlu balgama ilac; A Turkish poem.
Layout: Written in 19 lines per page, one-two columns in gold, black and red borders.
Script: Naskh script, fully vocalized, several hands, black ink with headers and overlinings in red.
Decoration: Illuminated unwan, cüz gülü, surebaşı, hatime, durak and borders with gold and color; Most interesting item in the manuscript is a symbolic drawing (138v).
Binding: Brown leather binding; Decorated. Restorated in 2017.
A few repairs; stains, with loss of some words but a good copy.
Catchwords present.
Incipit (1v): ...بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم- الحمدلله الذی وفق من شاء من عباده للخیر و وفقهم فی الدین
Explicit (188v): بو نظم حالت افزا كم قودم وفق العهدنامن حكم احكامنه هر حرفى معتد اوله عرفانى...

Keywords

Islam, Arabic poetry-622-750, Sufi poetry, Sultans of Ottoman-Biography, Birgivi, Mehmed b. Ali, 1523-1573-Al-Erbaun, Turkish manuscripts-İstanbul-Turkey

Citation

Boogert, Nico, Catalogue 635: Islamic manuscripts, Leiden: Smitskamp, 2002, pp. 265-266, 268

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